Opportunities

This solicitation addresses issues of translation and diffusion that arise in moving knowledge gained from fundamental learning and education research toward application in PreK-12 STEM classroom practice or leveraging knowledge derived from effective practice toward driving fundamental research. The first goal of this funding opportunity is to encourage the scientific study of theories, frameworks, and models for the translation and diffusion of knowledge, especially between fields and across contexts and levels-of-analysis (e.g., biological to cognitive/socioemotional to behavioral; individual to classroom to broader demographic variables; lab to classroom to school to district). The second goal is to advance or move specific practice, research or scientific discovery in STEM education reciprocally along the research-practice continuum.

The Translation and Diffusion (TD) solicitation invites four types of proposals:

• Research on Translation or Diffusion proposals 
• Proof-of-Concept Research proposals 
• Synthesis proposals 
• Conference / Workshop proposals 

Deadline: February 4 2026 
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